From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 11:45:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02171 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:45:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa3-03.ix.netcom.com [206.214.137.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02148 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01312; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:45:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807091845.LAA01312@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: login2@juno.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980709.103638.3838.0.login2@juno.com> Subject: Re: Help Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There should have been a message like 'changing root device to xxxxx' after the npx0 message. At the boot prompt, enter 'wd(1,a)/kernel' to boot from the slave disk on the first IDE controller. Rebuild the kernel with 'config kernel root on wd1' See the handbook, part 2, section 5, on how to build a kernel. READ http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html Subscribe to the freebsd-newbies mailing list. There is a lot of help there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message